[mythtv-users] MSI NVidia Personal Cinema FX5200

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 21 March 2005 22:31, Craig Thomas wrote:
> I have recently purchased a MSI NVidia Personal Cinema FX5200-VT128 card,
> and I am hoping to use it with MythTV.  I have seen a couple posts about
> the card, but I am slightly confused.  The one post lists drivers for the
> card using the saa7134 chipset drivers
> (http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/drivers.html).  Are these the drivers for
> both the card and the capture?

The saa7134 drivers are similar to the bttv drivers, they're just for a 
different capture chipset. That would be for the TV tuner portion of the card 
only, the video output portion would still use the nvidia driver.

> I am going through the RedHat FC3 HOWTO at 
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/, and I follow it fine until I get to the "Get
> and Install Capture Card Drivers."  All he talks about is bttv and ivtv. 
> What do I need to do at this step?  Is my card based on one of those, or is
> the saa7134 driver the capture driver.  If it is, how do I install it.

# apt-get install saa7134-kmdl-`uname -r`
# apt-get install saa7134

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Jarod Wilson
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